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Harvey Segal Site Admin
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:18 am Post subject: It's time I got involved with AdSense |
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Here is the latest issue of my newsletter.
SUPERTIPS EZINE
Issue 98: May 9, 2005
Harvey Segal, Editor
Hello SuperTips readers,
Here's a question for you.
A few weeks ago I had lunch with a group of Internet
marketers in London's West End.
When it came to discussing what they were working on
and what was making them their fortunes do you know
what the one topic of conversation was ?
The one which had them revealing quite extraordinary
profit figures.
The one which did not involve the hassle of creating a
product, dealing with customers, providing support,
giving refunds.
Or running an affiliate program and finding your
commissions had gone missing or the affiliate links had
been changed without your knowledge.
The answer ?
===> AdSense
Yes, those little ads at a website dominated the entire
discussion.
Well I kept quiet. I did not dare tell them of my
previous day's earnings - 89 cents.
But I listened.
I heard about all the various programs and clever ideas
they were using and realised I was seriously missing
out.
And it was the discovery of one 'missing link' which
made me decide it was now my time to get involved in
the world of AdSense.
Here was my reasoning.
It's clear that once you have created a site and
positioned your AdSense ads to the maximum effect then
it's just a matter of getting traffic to your site.
However there comes a time - the law of diminishing
returns - when piling in more and more effort in, for
example, trying to improve your site's search engine
rankings has less and less effect.
So how about another approach.
Suppose you had a way of creating a simple site very
quickly. A site so basic that it barely manages to pull
in ten dollars a week.
And suppose you had a way to duplicate that effort and
- over a period of time of course - you created 100
similar sites.
That would yield a nice 1000 dollars per week.
Easy isn't it?
Alas no - I hear you say.
Surely I've glossed over all the problems ?
For example
* how to monitor 100 sites.
* how to control the administration.
For example you get a bill today to pay for the domain
cost of site number 83. And tomorrow a bill to renew
hosting of site number 59. It's a nightmare isn't it ?
* the huge costs of hosting
* how to create the content
OK. Let's deal with all these problems one by one.
* Monitoring 100 sites
Forget about it. These are sites you build very
quickly, if they earn just 10 dollars a week that's
fine. Just leave them to run by themselves.
* Administration of the domains.
Well for simplicity just use one domain provider, so
you get into a routine for creating a new domain. I use
GoDaddy. I then use automatic renewal so I never have
to actively pay a domain bill. And there's a global
edit feature if I need to make an across the board
change to my account.
* Administration and payment of hosting.
Again you don't want to use lots of different providers
and have to learn the ins and outs of each one. I have
a reseller account with unlimited domains. Which means
I pay a mere $20 per month and I can set up site after
site with no extra cost and all using the same control
panel features.
* Creating the content
That's an area I won't go into detail here but just to
say there are vast areas of public domain material you
can use and sites with thousands of free articles which
the authors WANT you to publish.
Which leaves us with one final task - the actual
creation of the site.
At this point enter the missing link.
It's a tool called XSitePro and basically it is a
website building package designed specifically for the
Internet marketer.
Before showing you what it does let me tell you about
one person who is VERY excited about this tool.
He has so many sites he can't even recall them all.
He is in fact the king of minisites - Phil Wiley.
I call him the king for good reason. I've only ever
featured one outside product on the home page of my
SuperTips site. It was Phil's book 'Mini Site Profits'.
Since then I've reorganised the site and the home page
contains nothing but my own ebooks. So that first page
has moved down to page two. Here it is
http://www.supertips.com/two.htm
You can see that if one person should be qualified to
evaluate this tool it's Phil.
So how do I know that Phil is so enamored with XSitePro ?
Well he was sitting next to me at that lunch.
See - you get it from the horse's mouth here at
SuperTips.
What XSitePro can do is best illustrated by a site I
have just redesigned with it.
Here's the old version.
http://www.decision-making-tools.com/index-old.html
That has been around for a few years but I've done
little to develop it. The original purpose was just to
promote two tape products for which I was an affiliate.
But I did not fancy the work involved in expanding it
to include ebooks, a navigation menu, articles with
AdSense, site map and so on.
Enter XSitePro.
Here's the new look.
http://www.decision-making-tools.com
That took me a whole TWO hours !
Take a look at the articles lists in Personal Decision
Making and Business Decision Making. They were built
automatically.
Similarly for the site map.
The AdSense blocks were created simply by pressing the
Insert Google AdSense button and indicating my
preference for the size of block, colours etc.
No knowledge of HTML was necessary.
And when it came time to go live I just pressed the
Publish button.
There's so much more I can utilize such as pop-ups, a
links page, redirect files.
I can also take a long page and instantly split it into
as many pages as I want.
It can also perform SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by
analyzing each page and telling you what you need to do
such as
"You should have the keyword appear at least once in
your page description"
or
"The total number of words in the page description
should be greater than 20"
And, cleverly, that figure of 20 is configurable should
the supposed rules of SEO ever change.
You can't fail to overlook such tasks because there's
an automatic to-do list which shows all outstanding
items.
New versions of this tool will have even more exciting
new features according to the author Paul Smithson.
And how do I know this ?
Well Paul was also sitting next to me at lunch.
So I'll have to repeat myself - you get it from the
horse's mouth here at SuperTips.
Anyway I can't hang around much longer, I've got sites
to build.
And so would you if you grab hold of XSitePro
http://www.supertips.com/cgi-bin/b/t.cgi?xsitepro
Regards
Harvey
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UPDATE June 8, 2005
You can now see a video of XSitePro in action, click here
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coolbreeze
Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 93
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Harvey,
that is great info and a huge improvement over the old site.
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The AdSense blocks were created simply by pressing the
Insert Google AdSense button and indicating my
preference for the size of block, colours etc.
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are you referring to the colored blocks on the left and the top of the page? |
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WayneB
Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 960
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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This post has nothing to do with XSitePro but more with the numerous
automatic content creators people are using to create sites.
Just a note that people may want to start thinking more about quality
and less about quantity in the future with automatic content generators.
Adwords has just made some changes, and there is now an option where
advertisers can list domains where they don't want their ads to appear.
It is limited to 25 domains for now, so there will probably not be a huge
impact right away, but I look for this number to increase in the future.
Advertisers are demanding it. There has been a lot of discussion on
the WebmasterWorld forums about this. A lot of people just take these
automatic content creators and throw as many pages together as
quickly as possible without any regard to quality, but these type of pages
may be seeing less revenue from Adsense in the future. I think the
quality of the content is going to be much more important in the
future. If you take the time to make quality pages, these changes
should help increase your Adsense revenue. |
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Harvey Segal Site Admin
Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 2343
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| coolbreeze wrote: |
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The AdSense blocks were created simply by pressing the
Insert Google AdSense button and indicating my
preference for the size of block, colours etc.
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are you referring to the colored blocks on the left and the top of the page? |
The AdSense blocks are within the actual articles, for example
http://www.decision-making-tools.com/s01.html
Harvey |
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coolbreeze
Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 93
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| ok, i understand. i was curious because i read an article called Adsense Heat Map, which used similar colors. |
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ClickBobby
Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 1026
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| WayneB wrote: | | A lot of people just take these automatic content creators and throw as many pages together as quickly as possible without any regard to quality, but these type of pages may be seeing less revenue from Adsense in the future. |
I think AdSense is bringing this on themselves by not enforcing their own terms. The terms clearly indicate that a page shouldn't be created specifically just to display AdSense ads.
On other forums, I've seen examples of pages that have a few words along with AdSense. Other pages of the site follow the same pattern but are on completely different topics. It's obvious why the pages were created and little if any useful information is provided to a visitor who searches for and visits the site.
But I've read of repeated contacts with AdSense to report these sites and AdSense does nothing about it. Thus, more and more people decide to jump on the bandwagon and ride it for as long as possible.
It's not surprising the next logical step is some type of automated content generator.
I think where it's really going to hurt Google is when someone searches for information on some topic and has to wade through pages of search results before finding some really useful & applicable information.
Bobby |
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mark1048
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: How to bring visitors to low quality Web sites? |
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Harvey's article is very interesting. I am sure people can use XSitePro to create thousands of Web sites very easily.
Displaying Google ads on those sites are also easy to do. But the hard part is how to bring visitors to those sites.
Based on my readings on the Web, for a site to make 10 dollars a week, it needs about 5000 visitors per day.
How can we bring so many visitors to such low quality Web sites? Is there any tools to help?
Thanks.
Mark |
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WebFusion
Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 748
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Based on my readings on the Web, for a site to make 10 dollars a week, it needs about 5000 visitors per day. |
Not sure where you read that, but it's not even close to being accurate.
I have a site which get's just over 500 visitors per day, but brings in between $150-$200 a day.
Frankly....with the numbers you quoted, I wouldn't even bother getting out of bed. |
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DJMizticNZ
Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| WebFusion wrote: | | Quote: | | Based on my readings on the Web, for a site to make 10 dollars a week, it needs about 5000 visitors per day. |
Not sure where you read that, but it's not even close to being accurate.
I have a site which get's just over 500 visitors per day, but brings in between $150-$200 a day.
Frankly....with the numbers you quoted, I wouldn't even bother getting out of bed. |
I would agree here with webfusion, as I do know someone who gets roughly 5000 unique visitors to his site per month and manages to make around $10 in adsense revenue...
although he doesn't quite sell anything on his site as it is primarily a photo based site with photos of get togethers etc, it just goes to show that you don't really need 5,000 visitors per day to make $10/wk |
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mudnik
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 153
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose they never bothered to tweak with different colours, placement, etc. It does make a significant difference to the bottom line.
$150 with 500 visitors sounds great. You are generating a value of $3/visitor to your site even without selling any product! Are you using adwords to drive even more traffic to your site? _________________ Get Your Free Jay Abraham Report to Triple Your Business Profits |
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WebFusion
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Are you using adwords to drive even more traffic to your site? |
Nope. 100% Free organic traffic from the various search engines. |
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Harvey Segal Site Admin
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mudnik
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 153
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| mudnik wrote: | I suppose they never bothered to tweak with different colours, placement, etc. It does make a significant difference to the bottom line.
$150 with 500 visitors sounds great. You are generating a value of $3/visitor to your site even without selling any product! Are you using adwords to drive even more traffic to your site? |
Correction. Should be $0.30/visitor.
Why don't you try PPC? Since you know each visitor can earn you $0.30, you can afford to spend $0.10-0.20 on each click to increase your traffic. _________________ Get Your Free Jay Abraham Report to Triple Your Business Profits |
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WebFusion
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Why don't you try PPC? Since you know each visitor can earn you $0.30, you can afford to spend $0.10-0.20 on each click to increase your traffic. |
I know to the heavy PPC users it probably seems like I'm leaving money on the table by not utilizing PPC...but the fact is, aside from utilizing PPC when I test new products/ad copy, I simply don't want the bother of tracking and managing multiple ad campaigns. With 31 CB products, 17 content sites, and my online jewelry business, I've got about all on my plate that I want to handle. Considering the fact that between free traffic, affiliate referrals, bookmarks, articles, links, etc......my combined traffic free traffic totals across all my properties average over 250,000 visitors per day. As long as I can continue to build free traffic, I'll keep my money in my pocket  |
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barretina
Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 112
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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bloody good for you.
Thought IŽd had a reasonable day today (although nowhere anywhere near your league) till I saw what I'd spent.
Fortunately I have a couple of content sites to fall back on.
PPC is becoming a complete waste of time these days, in my experience. |
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DW
Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 305
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:11 am Post subject: Xsitepro |
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Harvey, I watched the video of this software and it looks like it would do the trick, how long did it take you to get familiar with this software?
I posted a few questions you had answered about an ebook I am working on, but know have a problem and could use this software.
I hate reading manuals...more or less just a dig-in-and-get-to-work kind of guy, that is why I was wondering about the learning curve.
I had created a ninche site the first of April than started my ebook figuring I would have time before this site started getting listed as I had done no SE submissions. Just one directory listing.
After not checking this site until today I was pleased and shocked.
April-MSN listing and ranking number 1 for 3 popular search terms with over 3 million competing pages.
May- Google listing 2 rankings top 5 and 6 in top 30.
Mind you this is a 9 page site with no outbound or inbound links and created over the course of three days.
Traffic for May to date is 20,000 hits and the last two days were nearing 1500 hits per day! It seems like just yesterday I had time to goof off
Will Xsitepro allow me to tweak each page description after it is created?
I find there is, for right now anyway, one thing I had in common on all my sites and pages when getting ranked and it is very relative to what order I use the title and headings in the page description.
Also I did not take the time to look at xsitepro other than the video to know if it would work with frontpage extensions which I presume it might not?
I have another editor I can use to convert this site so that is really not a problem.
With the numbers this site is generating in under two months with just uploading and no SEO....I am going to add about 1000 pages and adsense this one to the hilt  |
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DW
Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 305
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: I know...I know |
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| Please don't dog me too bad on "ninche" not being niche. That's what happens when the only manual I decide to read was spellcheck. |
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Harvey Segal Site Admin
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: Re: Xsitepro |
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| DW wrote: | Harvey, I watched the video of this software and it looks like it would do the trick, how long did it take you to get familiar with this software?
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DW,
Less than 2 hours - that's the time I spent on
working through the tutorial (rather than just reading it)
which I strongly recommend.
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Will Xsitepro allow me to tweak each page description after it is created?
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Of course, you can change anything about a page.
In fact the to-do list will show you every task
on every page which is outstanding
e.g
* You should have the keyword appear at least once in your page description
* You should have the keyword appear at least once in the alt text of images on your page
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Also I did not take the time to look at xsitepro other than the video to know if it would work with frontpage extensions which I presume it might not?
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Although you don't need any knowledge of HTML to use
XSitePro you are free to add your own HTML to any page.
Does that answer your question ? (I am not familiar with
Frontpage extensions)
Harvey |
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pspr
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[quote="WebFusion"] | Quote: | ......my combined traffic free traffic totals across all my properties average over 250,000 visitors per day. As long as I can continue to build free traffic, I'll keep my money in my pocket  |
That's interesting. Based on some numbers I recall from your earlier posts that should equate to about $0.53 per 100 visitors. |
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cad001
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